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A car drove off the end of the Virginia Beach pier and plunged into the sea, sparking a rescue effort by police. Around 6.50am Saturday, a car crashed through the barriers of the 14th Street pier and sped down the length of it. It braked briefly before driving through the wooden balustrade at the end of the pier and over the edge, as police say it is now 'at the bottom of the ocean.' A young woman standing on the beach caught the incident on camera when she heard a loud crash and started filming. Virginia Beach police are working...

(The Center Square) – A universal income program partially funded by the city of Denver that pays homeless people a regular stipend is eligible to migrants as long as they meet the criteria, according to the city. The Denver Basic Income Program, which was started in 2021 with the aid of $2 million from the city of Denver, announced it will go at least six months more beginning in February 2024. The $2 million the city gave Denver Basic Income Project in 2022 was “earmarked for women, families and transgender and gender non-conforming individuals,” according to a city statement to...

By NW Spotlight, Saturday Night Live did comedic hit on the Alaska Airlines incidences that occurred around Oregon. See video at the link.

UNITED NATIONS — An unprecedented surge in gang violence is plaguing Haiti, with the number of victims killed, injured and kidnapped more than doubling last year, the U.N. special envoy for the conflict-wracked Caribbean nations said Thursday. In a grim briefing, Maria Isabel Salvador told the U.N. Security Council, “I cannot overstress the severity of the situation in Haiti, where multiple protracted crises have reached a critical point.” She said the 8,400 victims of gang violence documented by her U.N. office last year — a 122% rise from 2022 — were mainly targeted by gangs in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Some...

Islam is on the verge of completely taking over Europe, in all ways — at least according to one who should know, Hans-Georg Maaßen, Germany’s top domestic intelligence chief from 2012 to 2018. In a recent interview, he stressed several points that spell the imminent downfall of Europe to Islam.His warnings are buttressed by disturbing demographic changes. According to conservative estimates from Pew Research, over the next 25 years — meaning most of the current generation’s lifetime — Europe’s Muslim population will triple to a staggering 76 million. In fact, the actual current and future numbers of Muslims appear to...

Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs have made it to the Super Bowl - meaning Taylor Swift will make a mad dash from Tokyo to Las Vegas to watch her boyfriend battle for football's ultimate prize on February 11. America's most famous couple kissed on the field at the M&T Bank Stadium in the aftermath of a magnificent victory for the Chiefs And when he got on stage and took the mic, Kelce was euphoric - channeling the Beastie Boys by shouting: 'You've got to fight for your right to party!'. Swift plays four nights of her blockbuster Eras...

The media industry was beset with a series of layoffs impacting a number of sectors in 2023. Earlier this month, Challenger, Gray and Christmas, an outplacement firm that tracks employment figures, said over 20,000 media jobs have been eliminated this year. This is the largest number of cuts in employment since 2020 when Covid-19 was raging and over 30,000 workers were laid off. The figure is also six times higher than the number of job losses in 2022 when several large media companies including Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney and others had undergone a series of layoffs impacting thousands of...

Party officials from across the state gathered in Phoenix for a long scheduled meeting and to select a replacement for Jeff DeWit, who stood down after DailyMail.com published a recording of the moment he apparently offered Lake a bribe not to run again. But the secret audio has divided the party. While some have applauded Lake, a firebrand hardliner who is close to Donald Trump, others accused her of secretly wearing a wire to set up DeWit. Witnesses said she was booed for a minute as she tried to make the case for Gina Swoboda to be elected chair of...

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REVIEW: 'Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia' by Kate ManneEvents of the last several months (if not years or decades) have amply demonstrated the moral and intellectual rot at the heart of our elite academic institutions. Ivy League universities in particular have become quasi-religious cults (attached to billion-dollar hedge funds) less interested in teaching than they are in preaching their gospel of radical nonsense. Their professional inhabitants are somehow even more out of touch with average Americans than are the self-righteous journalists who cover politics for a living....Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia was written by Kate Manne, a feminist philosophy expert...

Conservatives are advocating for changing the Child Tax Credit expansion in the bipartisan tax deal that advanced out of the House Ways and Means Committee, seeking a provision that would prohibit illegal immigrants from claiming the tax benefit. This legislation, as it stands, would increase the Child Tax Credit from $2,000 to $3,600 but it continues the existing policy of permitting illegal immigrants who file tax returns with tax identification numbers to collect the Child Tax Credit for their children. The expansion is part of the Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., tax legislation that is moving...

Wanted: corpses. Apply to Doctor Robert Knox, MD, FRSCEd, Professor of Medical Studies, Barclay’s Medical College, Surgeon’s Square, Edinburgh. Reference William Burke, hanged Jan. 28, 1829. Robert Knox was a noted physician in his prime, in the early 1800s. A surgeon, anatomist, and zoologist, Knox studied anatomy in London, then headed off to Africa in the army. Field surgery was a brutal business, and the poor anatomical knowledge at the time made it even more terrifying for those involved. In 1821, Knox moved to France to work in the shadow of his heroes, Georges Cuvier and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire; a...

It’s enough to wipe the smile off her face. A pair of climate-change activists hurled pumpkin soup at the Mona Lisa on Sunday at the Louvre Museum in Paris as onlookers gasped, shocking new video shows. “What is more important?” the crazed activists shouted in French. “Art or the right to have a healthy and sustainable food system?” The two nuts are members of the activist group called “Riposte Alimetaire,” or Food Response, which issued a statement saying the stunt was meant to highlight the need to protect the environment.

Programming Note: As you may have heard at the end of Day 7 of the trial, Room 518 in the DC Superior Court has been experiencing some hot air. Literally. Apparently the temperature control in the room is out of control. So the trial beginning tomorrow has been moved to Room 132 (new link here). Mark's cross-examination of Mann continues tomorrow, so be sure to tune in! Week 2: Trial of the Century Let's start our recap of the week with the First Amendment. As the bipartisan Project Democracy puts its, the First Amendment was designed to equally protect not...

With the Republican presidential primary looking all but wrapped up, attention now turns to who Donald Trump will choose as his vice-presidential running mate. The Babylon Bee writers, expert investigative journalists that we are, have managed to obtain Trump's official short list of potential VP picks: A Stanley tumbler: Get ready for unprecedented support from suburban white women. Pop-Tart Guy: The breakfast pastry that captivated the nation could be the ultimate unifying choice. Nikki Haley's husband: Just to really mess with her. Argentinian President Javier Milei: Just think of the hair! The lucky fan who buys the 1 millionth Trump...

Tucked into a footnote in a letter written by former federal judge Barbara Jones, the court-appointed special monitor overseeing Donald Trump's New York business fraud case is a bombshell that appears to indicate the former president may have engaged in massive tax evasion, according to a new report released by The Daily Beast. The letter, first reported by The Messenger, was delivered Friday to update Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron on Jones' findings while reviewing the former president's business dealings through his company, the Trump Organization. In it, Jones writes that the financial information filed to her by Trump's...

A group of 24 Republican legislators in Pennsylvania have filed a federal complaint against President Joe Biden, Gov. Josh Shapiro, and representatives of the Pennsylvania Department of State, saying they have usurped the authority of the legislature by changing voter registration and election rules. The legislators say the Elections Clause and the Electors Clause of the U.S. Constitution give state legislators the sole constitutional right to determine the manner of elections, and there is no role for the president, governor, or other executive officials, such as the secretary of state, to create, rewrite, or disregard the laws established by the...

The Biden Administration has reportedly stonewalled the investigation into the COVID-19 pandemic, causing Republicans to schedule a hearing on the matter. This week, GOP Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, accused President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of tampering with an investigation into the origins of COVID-19. Wenstrup said that the HHS had spent the past year “intentionally” avoiding lawful Congressional oversight requests for documents. He said they deliberately ignored several letters, providing many excuses. “When we asked for important testimony, HHS seemed to purposefully mislead Select Subcommittee...

Müller: Francis’ Church More Divided Than EverFrancis' homosexual propaganda piece "Sodoma Supplicans" is a "failed project" and needs to be rewritten in a clear, Catholic way, Cardinal Gerhard Müller told Raymond Arroyo, EWTN.com (25 January video, below).Christ and his cross are the ways of salvation and "not just a good will" or "the Freemasons who talk about brotherhood."There is no salvation "without commitment, without conversion, without changing one's life and without imitating Jesus Christ", he stated.The Cardinal observes that the Church is "more divided than ever" because of the text Sodoma Supplicans and that the African bishops will be leading...

A Democrat-sponsored bill in Hawaii that could ban former President Trump from the ballot for allegedly inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol advanced in the state legislature Monday. Hawaii state Sen. Karl Rhoads, a Democrat representing Honolulu who frequently criticizes Trump and Republicans over the Jan. 6 riot online, first introduced SB 2392 last week, which aims to "specify that election ballots issued by the chief election officer or county clerk shall exclude any candidate who is disqualified under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; article XVI, section 3 of...